Monday 4 April 2011

E.F. Schumacher - ‘Small is Beautiful’

Today’s Green Thought comes from E.F. Schumacher’s 1973 book ‘Small is Beautiful’. After quoting the following passage from Vernon Carter and Tom Dale’s Topsoil and Civilisation (1955),



‘Civilised man has despoiled most of the land he has lived on for long. This is the main reason his progressive civilisations have moved from place to place’
  Schumacher then adds –
The “Ecological problem”, it seems, is not as new as it is made out to be. Yet there are two decisive differences: the earth is now much more densely populated than it was in earlier times and there are, generally speaking, no new lands to move to.

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